"Who'd want to have kids with you?" she snapped. "Other me must have been sick in the head to even consider it, and that's before you destroyed her."

This was a friendly conversation! Really! Okay, no, since they weren't even pretending to keep up even the vaguest tatters of pretence at what had never been a very good masquerade anyway.

"So, I don't know, I think I'm entitled to being glad you're leaving." Karina pretended to think about that. "Yeah, pretty sure about that. Why are you leaving? Does someone actually want you or is the school kicking you out?"